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In the last few months, several videos or documentaries shown in North America about the Lebanese have misrepresented them and their culture.
For instance, Oprah’s...
made popular Oct 31 2009
Lebanese troops found and dismantled four rockets near the border with Israel on Wednesday, a day after a brief flare-up across the tense boundary, a Lebanese military...
made popular Oct 29 2009
Israel often likes to brag that it is ostensible “the only democracy in the Middle East.” Considering that this “democracy” is a...
made popular Oct 22 2009
Second only to Israel, no nation has mistreated the Palestinians worst than Lebanon. Although Palestinians refugees live in squalor in all Arab nations (and the...
made popular Oct 19 2009
When I heard the news that Lebanon had won a seat on the rotating part of the Security Council (made up of five permanent members and 10 rotating 2-year non-renewable...
made popular Oct 19 2009
As they say: Talking, or typing in this case, is much easier than experiencing or seeing. What the writer, who seems to have so much love for Lebanon due to his ...
made popular Oct 13 2009
I have recently been having a back-and-forth with an IB member from Lebanon. He accuses me of attacking his country. I am doing anything but: I never attack Lebanon or...
made popular Oct 9 2009
As noticed in many articles, Lebanon was fought by a writer for reasons I don’t understand, probably he doesn’t either. The real truth of Lebanon started...
made popular Oct 8 2009
There may not be a nation with a more delusion and grotesque form of nationalism than Lebanese nationalism. When ever I think of Lebanese flag-waving I am reminded of...
made popular Oct 2 2009
It is the time of the “Wimpy Operation” in Lebanon. Why is it called “Wimpy,” I don’t know, but the honored man was anything but wimpy....
made popular Sep 26 2009
A Mideast version of the Bernie Madoff scandal is threatening to tarnish Hezbollah’s reputation in Lebanon for being incorruptible, and the powerful Shiite...
made popular Sep 23 2009
In 1936, while attending the Berlin Olympic Games a young Lebanese athlete, Pierre Gemayel, admired the organization and fierce nationalism of the Nazis and founded...
made popular Sep 22 2009
Do you know why we call Hummus “Hummus”? Because it is a Syrian delicacy from the Syrian town of Homs. Well, maybe not. But that makes a good story. But...
made popular Sep 19 2009
Time for a new week in review of Occupied Palestine.
First, Britain’s +six-million strong TUC union voted in favor of a partial boycott of Israeli goods. Union...
made popular Sep 19 2009
The Lebanese president Michel Sulaiman began talks towards nominating the name of the new Prime minister; eyes are on Saa’d Alhariri for this mission, to be his...
made popular Sep 18 2009
“It’s a disaster, a tsunami,” he said. “Some farmers mortgaged their fields and brought in cash. Others sold land they had inherited from their parents....
made popular Sep 17 2009
Despite one of the quietest periods in decades along the Israel-Lebanon frontier, people on both sides of the border seem to fear that another eruption of violence is...
made popular Sep 12 2009
Lebanon entered a new chapter of political uncertainty today as prime minister-designate Saad Hariri stepped down after the Hezbollah-led opposition rejected his...
made popular Sep 11 2009
Tis’ the season of Ramadan. The ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar during which Muslims are obliged, as part of the Five Pillars, to fast from dawn to...
made popular Sep 11 2009
Everyone trusted Salah Ezzedine. A billionaire Shia Muslim businessman and financier from southern Lebanon, he organised pilgrimages to Mecca, ran a major Beirut...
made popular Sep 8 2009
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There has been a lot hoopla in the West and Saudi Arabia after their backed March 14 coalition of Sunni, Druze and right-wing Christian parties won the Lebanese...
made popular Jun 15 2009
I know this article comes like a bit less than a week late, but I wasn’t able to post anything during the last week... So, there you go my views of the Lebanese...
made popular Jun 12 2009
Ahead of key elections in Lebanon, BBC News has gained rare access to a fighter of the powerful military wing of Hezbollah, which stands a strong chance of making...
made popular Jun 4 2009
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